Even RW National Review Calls Out Issa's Conspiracy Mongering On Fast and Furious!

It is a sad world when the right wing media can be honest about the fact that Darrell Issa is merely brown nosing and playing to the paranoia of the NRA while the main stream media ignores the blatant partisanship behind tommorrow's contempt vote. Of course, right after playing right wing talking points with little critical analysis, I am sure the corporate media will then turn around and blame Democrats for the media's right wing bias.

Here’s what Issa told a National Rifle Association conference in April: "Could it be that what they really were thinking of was, in fact, to use this — this walking of guns — in order to promote an assault-weapons ban? Many think so, and they haven’t come up with an explanation that would cause any of us not to agree."

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Fast and Furious is a horrific scandal. The public deserves answers as to who devised the operation and what they hoped to accomplish. But the theory that Fast and Furious was devised to promote gun control goes far beyond the evidence, as Issa basically admitted to ABC this weekend, and it does not withstand scrutiny. The chairman should be ashamed to have dabbled in it, and should fully retract his initial comment, unless he has a considerable amount of evidence he has not shared with the public.

The theory goes something like this. It is a well-known fact that the Obama administration supports gun control. It is also known that the administration (and the media) loves to claim, falsely, that the overwhelming majority of guns used in Mexican crime come from the U.S. Further, as Issa explained on ABC, leaked e-mails reveal that at least one Justice Department official considered using the Fast and Furious case as a source of anecdotes showing that American guns are a major cause of Mexican gun crime. These anecdotes would be used to support a requirement that gun stores in some states tell the federal government whenever a single customer bought many guns. It also seems likely that the official knew at the time that his department had intentionally let the guns go.